WATERGATE: THE FORMIDABLE AL HAIG

When Nixon asked me to become Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs, I thought it important to have a military assistant
whose responsibilities ran to the White House rather than to the
Pentagon. With a war in Viet Nam to end, I needed an officer who
belonged to my staff but had the confidence of the military.

General Earle Wheeler, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, thought I
would be most comfortable with an officer with advanced degrees from
famous institutions. Having taught at Harvard, I rated somewhat lower
the wisdom evidenced...